Operations Team Lead - Fixed Term Contract

About the role

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future. Join us to build a career worth celebrating. Which company will you join? From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has changed. We're the world's leading premium alcohol company! Our brands are industry icons including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It's why we trust them with our legacy and why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the very best people! At Diageo, our purpose is to celebrate life everywhere, every day. To do that, you will join an organization that is passionate about customers and consumers, and proud of what they do. Diageo teams constantly set high goals and then try hard to exceed them. We are also an incredibly diverse organization, and we value each and every one's talent and personality. About the Function: Supply Chain & Manufacturing is where our brands are made, moved and delivered to the world. With over half of our people working across more than 100 sites, this is a complex, large-scale operation that brings together production, logistics, engineering and supplier partnerships. It's fast-paced and hands-on, with teams working together to ensure quality, efficiency and sustainability at every stage. From sourcing ingredients to getting products into customers' hands, you'll play a role in delivering the brands people know and love. This role is constantly balancing multiple priorities across a number of lines and a large physical structure. There will be a lot of in the moment decision-making that takes place under pressure that affects safety, quality and production. Directly responsible for the overall performance of a shift or that of multiple lines. This role directly manages up to 15 to 25 operators/mechanics across multiple lines. Purpose of Role: Responsible for managing the day to day production requirements across multiple lines including safety, quality, coordinating staffing assignments, safety activities and departmental budget activities. Provide business leadership to ensure that team meets or exceeds Manufacturing Excellence critical metrics. Drive continuous improvement and total employee engagement in critical success areas by empowering employees to apply Manufacturing Excellence tools and techniques. Optimize efficiencies and reduce labor costs as well as improving through puts while minimizing labor use

Responsibilities

• Ensure efficient production is achieved and standards are met. Optimize safety, quality, production, and cost objectives through employee involvement and team building approach to root cause problem solving and continuous improvement
• Manage the planning and implementation of key initiatives to improve bottling/warehousing operations.
• Ensure production databases are properly maintained and information applied for continuous improvement
• Support all safety and food safety audits and responsible for all corrective action items are completed and all bottling workers understand the goals.
• Generate ideas and implement changes in processes and use of equipment to increase efficiency, improve safety and quality, reduce costs, and improve employee morale.
• Adheres to critical objectives while considering the impact of those decisions and activities on the ability to achieve long-term goals.
• Relentlessly seeks, shares and embraces ideas and best processes in and outside the Company and embraces change introduced by others.
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Job Description : Title: Operations Team Leader - Fixed Term Contract *Anticipate 6 month contract with ability to extend

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